For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

I don't feel like embarrassing Kurt by talking about what a psycho hosebeast his wife is, especially when he knows it already.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything.

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food

I stopped drinking almost immediately after I had ready access to liquor, when I got to college. It almost immediately lost its appeal for me.

Im busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesnt appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.

All seasons are beautifully filled with splendid wonders.

You don't just luck into things.... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

I started just naturally turning into a nicer person, and it actually helped broaden and lengthen my career.

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

In 2006 I was asked to sing at the World Cup in Germany, and in 2010 I was fortunate enough to be asked again.